The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid impact crater.

The use of electrochemical energy storage systems based on alkali metal electrodes is hindered by the dendrites’ growth and volume changes upon cycling. Here, the authors propose nitrogen and zinc co-doped porous carbon nanofibers as potassium metal hosting m…

The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024.

Fruit-eating birds are not exotic. But what did the first fruit-eating flying bird on Earth really look like?

NET Web Desk Researchers of Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) have discovered a new diminutive sisorid catfish – Pseudolaguvia meghalayaensis, in the confluence of ... Read more

A new study posits that the evolution of chewing may have helped play a vital role in the evolution of humankind as a whole.

The best natural history links of the past seven days, from mystery holes on the seafloor to new technology that detects sperm whales.

The name of this star is R136a1. It is in the heart of Tarantula Nebula and is the largest known star in the Universe. Previous attempts to click sharp images of this star were successful in a limited way because the star is situated amid dust and near other …

New small, armored dinosaur (like a stegosaurus) looks strikingly like an armor-plated T. rex, complete with stubby little arms.

Tidally-locked exoplanets around red dwarf stars probably have brisk winds and permanent stormy spots. Could the Webb Space Telescope tell us more?

Lithium carbonate is ubiquitous in lithium battery chemistries and leads to overpotentials, however its oxidative decomposition is unclear. Here, the authors study its decomposition in ether electrolyte, clarify the role of the carbon substrate, and propose a…

More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs.

Advertisement Scientists have found a way of extracting oxygen from water in microgravity through magnets. The technology is a cost-effective and viable way to keep astronauts breathing during their journeys and is a huge leap in the production of oxygen from…

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Some 5,000 lightyears away sits a fiery red nebula in the shape of a beautiful rose. Some 5,000 lightyears away sits a fiery red nebula in the shape of a beautiful rose.

NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on 20 August 1977 as part of the Voyager mission to examine planets of the outer solar system.

Scientific Reports - Moringa leaf extract and green algae improve the growth and physiological attributes of Mentha species under salt stress

New York, Aug 20 (IANS): Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought, a new Harvard University-led study has said. Just over 250 million ye…

Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought, a new Harvard University-led study has said. Just over 250 million years ago, during the end of…

Life is defined by biology, not physics.

Primordial black holes could have pulled matter toward it to trigger stellar formation, but matter consumed by a black hole also heats nearby gas, causing it to push away.

Can the first probe to visit Neptune and Uranus make it to its 50th anniversary?

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